Sisterhood of the Traveling Junk - My Fun

I was in the group of 12 who signed up for the Sisterhood of the Traveling Junk from the Junk Revolution Community. I was the 6th person to get the box! And this is the fun stuff I got to choose from.....

Bottle Caps - cute and colorful I was actually thinking of putting some of them into the box when it was my turn.

A Metal Butterfly - would make great angle wings, I have some similar.

A Water Nozzle- my first thought that this could be used as a ring holder.

Buttons and Embroidery - I love buttons and have some vintage fabric items.

Musical Pieces - would make a good clip to hold notes or recipes

Shoe Taps - This is one I was thinking of taking but just wasn't sure what to do with them.

N - I love letters just as much as numbers

Door Plate and Building - A door plate was another thing I thought I could possibly add to the box and the building I also thought of making a ring holder.

? Metal Thing ? - No one seems to know what it is! but I still was thinking of taking it. I thought it might make a good candle holder.

Tiny Metal Cars - I was tempted to take these also! My last name was a name of an old car!

I wonder what hey are from?

Numbered Nails ? - I would have made some kind of a peg board out of them.

Does anyone know wha thay are?

In the end, it was between this and


these numbers!

I took these!!

Numbers Galore! - cattle, locker, and hotel. So far I have used 2 of them and I have them on my blog tomorrow!





And this is what I put into the box, A photo and 4 chandelier prisms.

Originally I was going to add a spice tin and put items of interest into it, but it was so full when I got the box that I decided on the prisms.

It sure was a fun experiment, and would do it again but I will sit the next one out so others can have fun!!

Old Mirror Makeover

I got this mirror from my SIL, it was her mothers. I just wanted, to do something a little different with it, but not permanently. So, I decides to find a vinyl decal to add to it. I first wanted just a word like Imagine or Dream but decided to go with P the initial of my last name.

I found one on Etsy. It is gold in color.

Here it is hang on my Living room wall.

Recycled Bags

A couple of days ago Margo had a blog post about bags so I thought I would join her! http://robolady.blogspot.com/2009/08/its-in-bag.html

This first bag I got on Etsy, it is crocheted of recycled grocery bags. Read more about it at her etsy site http://www.craftykathi.etsy.com/

The next bag is recycled with a belt, leather pieces, coffee bean bag, drawer pull and vintage jewelery, visit robelyn at her etsy shop for lots more ... http://www.redneckchic.etsy.com/

The last three are are my tote bags, the ones on the end were made by my kids when they were in sewing class at school, they were left behind when they moved away, I like to have them in my car for fast purchases at the grocery store. The middle one might be familiar to Junk Revolution Fans!! If not check it out at http://www.junkrevolution.com/ look for the Store!

Time For Tea

Here is a simple and fun project. It is a take on the garden totems people have been making. A great way to use a teapot with no lid! The bottom is just a saucer, then the teapot, an inverted bowl, another small saucer, and the last is a cup. The cup is from an old potpourri burner. Then I added the lace bow and a spoon and a vintage pin, silk daisy and a candle,( I only had green) white would be best.

Laundry Room

It took me a long time to find the right cabinet to put above the washer and dryer, then it took me a long time to get around repaint it and the laundry room. I should have taken a close up to see the chippy paint and I did a wash of green paint. The curtains hanging under it are recycles from my daughters dorm room and they hide the hose connections.

I collect vintage hankies and strung up a line like a wallpaper border to display them, I need to find some more tiny clothes pins so I can hang more.

This is also in the laundry room, the shutter is actually three shutters screwed together and it hides the electrical panel and can be easily taken down when needed. The little slip is actually mine when I was a baby.

My Friend's Shabby Quilt

While I was camping at the beach, my friend Rhonda showed me a quilt she made a couple of years ago. I instantly fell in love with it and how it is made!

Sewing circles on a square then cutting the square in quarters, putting them all in a bag and randomly pulling them out and sewing them into a square again! Love the frayed edges!

Then she had it machine quilted.

Table Redo

Early summer I found these two tables at a yard sale for $2.00 a piece, had to have them to redo. One is missing the table top and I will let my daughters boyfriend have that one to redo. He works part time for a wood worker who make furniture out of old wood. I did the other table!

This one!
I forgot to take during photos but it was an easy project. I primed all the would I was going to paint and painted it a linen white. We had the paint when my daughter painted her bedroom furniture. Then used craft paint (raw umber) and some water to make a glaze to antique it.

Added music paper from an old booklet, using mod podge. I did the edges first, trimmed and sanded then did the top. I trimmed and sanded the edges again.

I removed the old knob and added a wooden one that I painted black.

The music pages I tore the edges before gluing them down. I saved one sheet with a cool title to add as my last piece for interest, Moon Mist!

It was a fun project, I took it to my Mom's yard sale but did not sell it, had some lookers, I believe it is too different an item for yard sale goers, but I did sell my quilted window shelf I had in an earlier post and one of my yardstick stars.

I Found These Dogs

I found these dogs at a yard sale recently! Only $1.00 for all! But I have never seen dogs like these before, are they plaster, chalk? not sure just that they are shabby and can be very chic. I want to clean them up some, and find some cloches or make some. Any other ideas are appreciated.

The biggest one I will be keeping, the rest I will sell either on etsy or a yard sale. I checked on ebay to find any similar and had no luck.

Measuring Stars

Here is another star from a measuring device, a folding ruler. This one is made of metal. I took off the fist an last section of the tape measure so the sections were all the same size. Folded it in a star shape and pop riveted the ends together and glued at each point.

Kitchen Platter

This is a old platter that I made into a kitchen sign over my stove top. Kuche is German for kitchen, as I am of German decent. Everyone has seen Bon Appetit (not sure of the spelling) the French for good eats I think. I looked up many words on an Internet translator to find a word that related to the kitchen and also looked good. I then played on the computer with a print shop to find a font I liked and printed it in reverse. I had the platter and paint ready to go and as soon as it was done printing on regular paper I placed it on he platter and with the back of a spoon rubbed on the ink to make a guide line for me to then paint it on the platter.

I also got other German phrases to put on as a border above the cabinets this one says Eat Cookies! In case anyone is wondering the backsplash is that very textured wall paper that I thought looked like tin cieling and I painted it a copper color.

And this one is Drink Milk!

One other little tidbit, the milk bottles are filled with salt, to make it look like milk, so much better than the little Styrofoam beads I see people use.